Please note
that from Tuesday 2nd November some of the system addresses used to access our
website are changing.

You should not notice any difference, however if you are using the text
"195.153.22.85" in any of your web addresses you will need to change it to
"ukcows.com"

The Centre for Dairy Information

The creation of the Centre for Dairy Information has quickly established a new era of industry cooperation, developing a single, comprehensive and integrated database. This allows the storage and analysis of a wide range of data, transforming data into knowledge for informed management decisions.

This wealth of information not only allows the Centre for Dairy Information to be an industry storage resource, but importantly become an analytical centre of dairy information for management, benchmarking, education, information and research purposes. Essential tools in ensuring the UK dairy industry operates efficiently within today’s challenging environment.

The CDI has been given a face-lift for 2010. In consultation with our users, we
have made improvements to the websites usability and functionality as well as
giving the site a fresh appearance. The changes to the site do not end there
however. We are also delighted to announce the that the next release of the site
scheduled for later in 2010, will incorporate the DairyCo Breeding+ pages. This
will ensure that the users of the website can get all the information they need
to support their breeding decisions from just one place.

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Data & Statistics

This section contains National herd statistics, which provide information on the correlation between production and inspection (classification), progress made by the National herd and within certain regions and the ability to compare your own herd trends. You can also view the National production averages by looking at the data provided by Kingshay, which can be found in the ‘Management’ section.

Health & Welfare

As the health and welfare of UK herds is fundamental to the bottom line of any dairy enterprise, the CDI have developed a section devoted to information that may help breeders determine how improvements can be made to their system.

‘Cow Health’ focuses on disease management both on an individual and herd basis. Other options explain heritable conditions and what to look out for when selecting sires.

‘Breeding for Health & Welfare’ provides information on the CDI Type Classification system, while ‘NADIS’ illustrates a rolling year of disease statistics. This can be extremely useful as seasonal conditions can be pre-empted.

Management

The Management Section offers a range of information to help you manage your herd including the Kingshay Dairy Manager costing service, up to date industry production averages and useful farm management fact sheets highlighting current issues.

Along with this, a number of Herd Solution Sheets focus on managing a variety of challenges at herd level whilst within the ‘Tools’ facility, you can access a range of breeding and management tools to help take the hassle out of bull selection and pedigree recording.

Breed Societies

Within this section of the website, the more familiar pages of those provided by each breed society are linked through one simple matrix.

Options to view listings within the independent pages of your society allow you access to the remainder of the breed society pages.

Every society involved with CDI is also linked through ‘Concept Partners’ along with other organisations who have contributed heavily towards the realisation of a central, integrated database.